The Monday Night "Tango Incident" in Ojai

8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Free
 No Cover

 at LOS CAPORALES - 307 East Ojai Avenue, Ojai
- next to Libbey Park

Description: "Milonga
for Beginners" with Sabine Zubarik

What Sabine says about her "Milonga" Workshop:

"If you are unacquainted with the Milonga rhythm and you don't
know what to do with it and what not, this is the right class for
you! We will get into the rhythm with basic steps, try to stay in
it without racing ourselves breathlessly; we will see where in the
music we can give ourselves a break and how to re-enter the beat again.
The material we work with is simple  only steps and weight change
 but believe me, it is more than enough to create an interesting
dance!"

More About Milonga  the Music and the Dance:

An introductory workshop like this is the perfect opportunity to
begin exploring the rich territory shared by tango and milonga,
and an excellent way to expand the depth and range of your dancing.

The syncopated, up-tempo 2/4 beat of milonga is the
rhythmic foundation of all tango music, and it dominated the sound
during the 19th Century when the many overlapping threads of modern
tango were first coming together.

Through the related forms of candombe and habernera,
historians now trace the driving beat of milonga directly
to West Africa  in the areas of present-day Congo and Angola
 where this distinctive rhythm is more than 1,000 years old.
In these cultures, the syncopated pulse of milonga still
means what it always has, quite literally: "Get up, and dance!"

In our own culture, the challenge for dancers is to match the vocabulary
and movements of tango to the pace and energy of this music to create
the style of dancing we call milonga.

Of course, in addition to a particular kind of music and the dancing
that it inspires, the word "milonga" also
refers to a gathering of dancers who come together to enjoy tango.
So it's entirely possible to "Dance a milonga to a milonga at
a milonga"  quite a wonderful thing.

More About Sabine Zubarik

Sabine Zubarik lives in Germany, where she teaches
tango in Berlin, her hometown of Erfurt, and at international tango
festivals. She started dancing tango in Argentina, and returns there
regularly to study with master teachers. She received her professional
training as a tango teacher in Hamburg, and continues to expand
her tango skills with master dancers from Europe, Argentina and
the United States.

Her perspective on tango is that it should "wake our senses"
 for our own bodies, for communication with others, and for
music and expression. She likes to combine playful social games
with precise body technique.

Sabine's visit to Ojai is being presented in collaboration
with the Argentine Tango Club of UCSB where she will be teaching several
other tango workshops from April 16 - 18, on campus at UCSB.

For information about these weekend workshops with Sabine
 and for more on the Friday Night Milonga on April 17 at UCSB's
Student Resource Building, please visit the Argentine
Tango Club of UCSB website.